What is the spirituality of the Bible, the way to obedience?
Is it the meditation on the law and commandments as prescribed in the first Psalm? Is it the simple belief in God's love? Or is it rather justification by faith? In a sense it is all of these together, however in what manner?
It is in fact the meditation upon and the belief in our status as sons of God, the abandonment of the flesh coupled with the certain hope of our future with Christ in heaven, a hope which engenders obedience by nature.
And upon this foundation commences the meditation upon the law which is now capable of being fulfilled by the Christian who possesses the Spirit of God. For what does the Apostle say after declaring the doctrine of justification? He tells us to mortify the flesh by the Spirit and to think spiritual thoughts or rather to set the mind on the Spirit. This is the spirituality of the Bible: to set the mind on the Spirit, to have spiritual thoughts as the original translation says. But what does this mean? Do I just think thoughts about heaven all day long? Do I meditate on the presence of the Spirit? In a sense, these are good forms of spirituality, and the nearer we are to God and the presence of the Spirit, the holier we become. And what does the Spirit do? What are these spiritual thoughts? He immediately tells us that it is the witness of the Spirit that testifies with our spirit that we are children of God! It is the cry of the soul in the inner self, Abba Father.
This is the spirituality of the Bible.